Discussing an "Official" Kubuntu PPA scheme

[Jonathan]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 4:02:16 pm Nathan Handler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan <echidnaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We could give the members of #kubuntu-testing the passwords for the
> > private PPA, but that channel seems somewhat dead..... Maybe that needs
> > to change too.
>
> I am not 100% sure what "#kubuntu-testing" team you are referring to.
> If it is [1], then I think that would be a mistake. That team is an
> open team. That means that anybody could simply join that team to gain
> access to the private ppa. I think that this ppa should only be
> available to those users who are directly involved with performing the
> update. The packages in the ppa go through many changes before they
> are uploaded. As a result, it would be very difficult to get good
> feedback from the testers. I would much rather have them test out the
> packages after they are uploaded to the official repositories.
Yeah, I meant #kubuntu-testers.
In the (recent) past we've also generally given interested testers in 
#kubuntu-testers the private PPA info, but only when they ask for it on IRC 
and we know that they are trustworthy people who are actually using the PPA 
for testing purposes.

That being said the kubuntu-testers team is pretty much dead. :(
All of the testing usually takes place after $release is copied to -
experimental. Maybe that's how it should be?
> Other that that, I have no issues with your proposed plan.
>
> Nathan
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-testers